Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn over the government to President-elect Augustin Justo with clean hands until the Kennedys were smoked out. ''Trivial and ridiculous fiasco!'' he growled-and called for more troops. Trivial (but not entirely ridiculous) Argentina's latest "revolution" was indeed. With some 100 followers the Kennedy brothers, famed fighters with pistol & knife, set out from their ranch one night and slipped into La Paz. In the police station they...
...much the same spirit Yale today meets St. John's. Little is known or cared to be known about her football strength; her record thus far is discouraging. On the books she should be annihilated. It should be another fiasco with the Blue not even getting as much out of it as a game with the Freshmen or the scrubs. This is the way Yale prepares for Harvard, which is getting ready for us by playing Dartmouth and Holy Cross on consecutive week-ends before the big game...
Captain McGrath, who has been transplanted from infield to outfield, and back to shortstop, adding third base to his repertoire in last Saturday's fiasco with Syracuse, will return to the shortstop position this afternoon, while Mays, who covered this section of the diamond on Saturday, has been shifted to second base, in place of Kiernan, Sophomore ball-tosser who was slightly unsteady in the last contest. At third Mitchell hopes to reinstate DesRoches, veteran baseman who has been out of the game for some time due to a wrenched knee. DesRoches's absence from the infield has been keenly...
...Harvard are inevitably put on the block for comparison with those of the grim government industry, a comparison that involves not only team play, but also individual undergraduate attitude and sportsmanship. But with the traditional slum and gravy signs, the future generals will come again for the annual fiasco, and John Harvard will discard his Bible for a glance at the future defenders of the rights of the peaceful...
...shakeup, more important than appeared on the surface, within the Farm Board's agencies. Last December National Grain Corp. hired William G. Kellogg as general manager. Mr. Kellogg had been a Minneapolis cash grain dealer. His brother John had been involved in the Armour Grain Corp. fiasco which caused his suspension for two years from the Chicago Board of Trade. Early this year when wheat broke badly Grain Corp., with the Farm Board's sanction, organized Stabilization Corp. to go into the pit and trade on U. S. funds. William Kellogg was made its president. Who endorsed...